CONROD and CARRSQ
The Commission has, since 1997 placed an emphasis on its partnership agreements with two research centres – CONROD (Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine) and CARRS-Q (Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety in Queensland).
CONROD is located at the University of Queensland (UQ) and was established in partnership with this University. As a nationally recognised research centre, it conducts research into the acute care and rehabilitation of people injured in motor vehicle accidents and related events and into the prevention and management of consequent disabilities.
CONROD operates five core motor vehicle injury research programs:
- Acute Trauma Care – focus on injury management;
- Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) – improving injury assessment and rehabilitation strategies to facilitate recovery;
- Health Economics and Health Systems – prevention or mitigation of the economic consequences of injuries and disabilities;
- Social and Behavioural Science – improving psychological outcomes (in terms of adjustment and rehabilitation) for injured people; and
- Vocational and Community Rehabilitation – investigating opportunities to increase resources and the capacity to manage consequences of disability for injured people.
CARRS-Q is located at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and was established in partnership with this University. It has a focus on research, teaching and community education with specific aims of improving accident prevention and road safety. It is via this research that CARRS-Q seeks to address the considerable human, economic and social costs created by motor vehicle accidents.
CARRS-Q undertakes world-class research in five main areas of road safety:
- Regulation and Enforcement;
- Safety Systems and Technology;
- Vulnerable Road Users;
- School and Community Injury Prevention; and
- Occupational Road Safety.
Last reviewed 13 July 2009
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